Etymologies

(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

From an Italian noble family, a sixteenth-century marquess who invented a plumeria-scented perfume. The name comes from frangi "breaking" + pani "bread," a reference to the family's distribution of bread in time of famine. (Wiktionary)

Examples

These ganaches also come in other flavours, such as frangipani, lime, vervaine, lavender, blue lotus and tuberose!